One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This system is known as a majuscule script, originating from stone inscriptions, ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Can the myth of the Labyrinth of Knossos be explained by the Minoan civilization? This article examines the evidence.

Archaeologists working at Mohenjodaro have uncovered a protective wall encircling the ancient city, a discovery experts are ...

ASTANA — Five underground mosques in Kazakhstan’s Mangystau Region have been added to UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage sites, according to Kamar Bimagambetova, a specialist at the Mangystau ...

Winner of the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition’s Grand Jury Prize, Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden’s film is both ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Forget your birth date. Here’s how your cognitive habits and emotional maturity reveal the real age of your mind.